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...years ago, Drs. E. A. Graham, G. H. Gopher and W. H. Cole, all of the Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, began research to make possible visualization of the gallbladder by use of the Xray. They found that certain salts injected into the body are eliminated through the bile, which is stored in the gallbladder. They knew that iodin and bromin salts are opaque to the Roentgen ray. They secured a combination of these salts and obtained X-ray pictures of the abdomen in which the gallbladder, previously invisible because of soft tissue, appeared almost as clearly...
Badgers from Wisconsin and Gophers from Minnesota spent a fruitless afternoon gnawing at one another. At the outset, with tackle Schwarze, biggest Badger, ripping open large holes in the Gopher colony, it looked as though he and his fellows must win. But the biting of other Badgers fell (Continued on Page...
...Forty-five miles from Sauk Centre ("Gopher Prairie"). †Bluefield is just across the river from C. Bascora Slemp's Virginia home...
...Wallace, editor of The Herald of Sauk Center, Minn., the town which furnished the original for Gopher Prairie in Sinclair Lewis' novel, Main Street, called on Mr. Coolidge. Speaking to reporters, Editor Wallace said: "Main Street may be slow and has its prejudices, but it's strong for a square deal. . . . New York is the biggest small town in the country...
Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...